I came to think it might be fun to 'hetalialise' funny incidents from student exchanges, so here's Exchange Students Hetalia...

When I was staying in Yorkshire for three months, my host mom used to *repeatedly* start talking to me in Italian, expecting me to understand what she was saying (despite my pseudo-Italian nickname which I've had since primary school and don't even know why, I'm 100% German...), until she realised (or I made her realise) what she was doing. I think this was because she had learned German at school and later lived in Italy for a few years, and apparently speakers of English can't deal with knowing more than one foreign language... xD Also, my host family had exchange students from North Italy all of the time as well (who all spoke German better than they spoke English, which made me feel very ashamed of not speaking any Italian... ><), which might have led to more confusion...

I've got ideas for two or three more of these comics based on student exchange experiences of my own and some classmates, but if you have any funny incidents to share, just comment with them (including your own country and the country you went to), and I might use them in future comics.

I guess as Germanic languages Danish and German are rather similar, so that's not too unusual. It's weird when people mix up Germanic and Romanic languages though (just this week, a colleague of mine asked me if I could speak French because he wasn't understanding what a client was trying to ask him and he really spoke English... xD).

I'm a Brit and I went to America. Doing regular shopping when I asked for the Turkey. Because of my OTT British accent, they didn't understand me after 15 times of saying it xD They understood hamburgers fine! XD

Ahaha xD My parents (Germans) had a similar experience when they went to Scotland for a holiday and tried to order "two cups of tea" (pronouncing it 'tee', the way they had learned it in school), and after a dozen times of repeating it, the waitress realised they meant "tow tay". xD (And just out of linguistic curiosity: isn't the only difference between the British and American pronunciation of 'turkey' whether or not you pronounce the 'r'? That made them so confused? *laughs*)

I don't think I could mix up those two languages, I might mix up spanish and italian or some very similar languages but, not anything like german and italian. I am trying to learn all of the languages I can so I can travel the world with more ease and be able to learn more histories easier.

During my Cinco de Mayo party in Spanish, my teacher started holding out a plate of cookies for us but I kept mixing all the languages I knew until I finally calmed down and said, "Gracias.""Arigatou, no! Danke, er, takk! Thank you, no, uh... Ah! Gracias!"

Hahahayahahhqhqhqhqhahahahahah ( i choked on my tea while laughing) its hilarious!! And so true i bet u that would happen to me one day... hahahaha hahahahahahahaha hahahahahah exept i can tell dialects apart. One day soon i have a feeling il try to say something in one language and think it fine when i spoke the wrong language hahahahahhahahahahahahaha

Haha, I'm glad I could make you laugh. xDSomething like that actually happened to one of my classmates, he once filled in a French test completely in English. Things like these happen all of the time... Ö_Ö

Haha! Sadly, that's true for Americans too. In my German class, I accidentally mixed German and American sign language. In my defense, I was tired! Anyway, I was in a home-stay in Italy, and the mom and grandmother came up to me, started stroking my hair, and spoke rapid Italian to each other. I don't know any Italian, but thanks to having Spanish shoved down my throat, I understood "bella cabello"

Haha. A boy in my class once answered a French test completely in English. xD So I guess no-one's really save from doing this...It's actually rather hard not to mix up all those Romanic languages, but then again, I find it quite practical that you can more or less understand all of them once you've learned one or two (e.g. I learned French and Spanish at school and can therefore vaguely understand most Italian or Portuguese texts).

I live mostly overseas in expat communities, and when I tell people my name they start speaking to me in Italian. I'm like "I DON'T SPEAK ITALIAN, DAMNIT!" which, to a Hetalia fan, doesn't help my case. ^^'

When I went as an exchange student in China once, I tried talking to one of the few people who spoke English. Sadly, he wasn't very fluent. I tried asking him where the cafeteria was, and he thought I asked if I could eat the cafeteria or something.Oh, and I'm in America currently. But I was born a Brit. :3

It is sad be incredibly true that English speakers (especially Americans) have a hard time knowing more than two languages (one of which being our own). At least for me and the rest of my classmates. Trust me, I'm American, and can barely speak English. XD